No REDD in Africa Network
NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of entities that oppose all kinds of REDD*.
*(Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation).
World Social Forum, Tunis, March 2013
Where the network was founded.
NRAN rejects carbon trading and carbon offsets of any kind by any name.
Because REDD projects grab peasants and local communities lands;
Because REDD is a new form of Colonialism;
Because REDD does not reduce emissions;
REDD only defers or relocates deforestation
Also, resisting REDD helps to stop the establishment of monoculture tree plantations and the use of genetically modified trees.
16 publications on REDD, carbon markets and false solutions. Free to download.
Latest report
This report critiques the reliance on market-based solutions like REDD+ and carbon markets in Africa, arguing that they perpetuate injustices and exacerbate socio-economic vulnerabilities. It emphasizes the need to resist green extractivism and green grabbing through evidence-based analysis and strategic action.
Forests are not a mere collection of trees but are complex, biodiverse ecosystems that support human communities, other beings and overall health of the planet. Direct benefits to human communities include the fact that forests are spaces for cultural, spiritual, health, socio-economic and educational activities. NRAN rejects the consideration of forests and all other ecosystems as carbon sinks and the appropriation and manipulation of forests and all Life for carbon trading and carbon offsets.
Plantations are monocultural collections of trees and crops. Plantations and industrial agriculture are major drivers of deforestation and displacement of human communities. NRAN rejects carbon trading and carbon offsets of any kind by any name including with soils, crops, grasslands, and genetically engineered trees.
NRAN believes that climate change is a symptom of a systemic failure. The system that drives climate change depends on continuous extraction and burning of fossil fuels, industrial agriculture and over consumption. False solutions are built on principles of market environmentalism and include carbon trading, various types of REDD, Net Zero, decarbonization, nature-based solutions (NBS) geoengineering and modern agricultural genetic engineering. NRAN believes that climate change can only be tackled through system change, including by keeping fossils in the ground.
Extractive activities continue to cause massive deforestation, destruction of lands, poisoning of water bodies and pollution of lands and the atmosphere. Extractivism equally provokes militarisation and displacement of communities. NRAN supports communities in the defence of their territories, including their right to reject exploitative extractive activities, be they on land or in the seas.
Latest
Jul 30, 2025
FOREST CARBON DIALOGUE – The truth behind Carbon Offsets In a first of its kind, highly interactive and engaging dialogue, the No REDD in Africa Network in collaboration with Health of...
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Jul 19, 2025
The No REDD in Africa Network participated in a meeting held on 15th July 2025, with over 100 participants – civil society leaders, grassroots activists, and environmental justice advocates – from ten...
Jul 14, 2025
African natural resources and biodiversity are being promoted as central tools of the market-based solutions to the current environmental crisis, particularly through REDD+ and the production of carbon credits. The...
May 12, 2025
The No REDD in Africa network on 31st March 2025 held a webinar to mark the 2025 International day of Forest with the theme Forest and Food and also to discuss...
The NRAN is open to accept memberships and build alliances with any organization or individual persons that agree with these principles.
Members and Allies
